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Jews respect old people. Don’t laugh at them. Simply arrest for elderly abuse those who tricked him into coming it to the studio and standing in front of the mic embarrassing himself and the country.
> Judges now can second-guess
This is outrageous, indeed. How dare judges interfere with lawful acts passed by Congress!? Oh, wait, no – they can intervene only when Congress did not say anything, but President-appointed agencies made their own decision.
But my problem with the poster is not so much his opinions to which he is entitled, but in his not presenting the facts before posting his opinion. Even meraglim started with reporting the facts.
This sounds like a great solution, It will also make them visible to other population who will appreciate the service and prepare them for jobs in medical field.
Jack seems to support beating Medicare. Where is Jewish respect for elders.
EXCTL, as a lawyer, did you see differences between recommended paths for those with private insurance add-ons v. medicaid? This might show where the medical decisions are biased one way or another?
Edom hated us. Midyan hated us. Moav hated us. And they’re all gone. Bavel is gone and Persia is gone. They’re all disappearing one after the other. But we’re still here. It’s good to hear what a goy says about this. Everybody knows how I always quote Mark Twain. Mark Twain said that “the Jew walks on the graves of all his oppressors.” They’re all gone and we walk on their graves.
for balance, here is from 2000
We are expected to slaughter all of the ideals of the umos ha’olam. You have to slaughter the ideal of literature. Literature is false. The literature of the gentile world is all false literature. It never happened. It’s fiction. People today have accustomed themselves to fiction, to drama and it’s all false! People are being paid to act in a certain way. It’s all false. You have to slaughter their movies. You have to slaughter their music. You have to slaughter all their sports …
It’s a sin to be Americanized. You can be a good, loyal citizen, but don’t Americanize! As much as possible you must rid yourself of the all these gentile ideas1984 Q: Should one allow himself to absorb the apikorsus found in books about niflaos habriyah?
A: I’m not sure I understand this question but I suppose he means this: If you’re going to read books about the wonders of nature, won’t we also find there statements that can mislead people to atheism and apikorsus? And the answer is certainly you will. And I never said you should read those books. But what I do say is that we have a tremendous textbook whose pages are open before our eyes – nature is apparent and obvious for anybody who is interested in seeing it. יודוך השם כל מעשיך. Everything in this world is praising Hashem. There are so many things that are available every day in our lives that you don’t need any books.However, if you’re going to be a teacher, you can read books if you’re capable of understanding the poison and omitting it, skipping over it. But for ordinary people, these gentile books are not recommended.
here is tape 561, aug 1985. Note that in other tapes he mentions sheker of antisemitism in Dickens (Fagin), Shakespeare, etc
q: Should a twelve-year-old girl be forbidden from going to the library? And are there alternatives?
a: As far as the first question, today the library is off limits for anybody. Everybody knows that they have stocked toeivah books and there are other books too like that; and they’re in the children’s section. So letting a child go by herself to a library and looking through the books means that the parent is either entirely ignorant or doesn’t care.Libraries used to be good places. When I was a boy, we could go with confidence to the library. There were shelves of books where you could read about poor boys who worked hard. Horatio Alger books; shelves filled with books about people who worked hard and were honest and they became successful. Inspiring books. Today, all you read is books of criminals and wicked children. You read about a child who murdered his father or who brings a gun to school to shoot his teacher. And besides violence, today the books are filled with immoralities. Terrible things. Libraries are off limits today. They are foul places and I think that even adults shouldn’t go to the library. What’s the alternative? If you must read English books, you can buy old-time books, old-time sets of Mark Twain. Now it’s not that I’m recommending it. Mesillas Yesharim is better than that. But if you must read English books then read the old-time sets of O. Henry. Old-time sets of Dickens. If you like heavier stuff, old-time sets of Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe and other such books. There are plenty of books that won’t poison the mind as virulently as today’s books. There are plenty of books. There are alternatives.
I think the message here is that one should quote both opinions when discussing the issue. You can’t imagine Gemora written with just Beit Shammai, do you? Those who – knowingly – quote just one side – are not worthy discussing with.
I think this complaint is based on his actual experiences – MO school refused to count kids from multiple wives for a total family discount. In more patriarchic school, they ignored different batim, and count just the Head of the Household.
A hard case. For example, he reportedly limit Ukraine usage of starlink when attacking Russian territory. On the other hand, he built this wonderful technology that seems to be useful to Ukraine in areas where service is available. To compare, nobody accuses me of switching off my services, but then I have billion less users than he does. So, it is easy to criticize someone who does something very useful, and he is doing it in several different areas.
Similarly, so many articles about several people dying munching food instead of holding the wheel of their Tesla. But, I presume this technology already saved 1000s of lives and will save numerous more.
He may be allowing weird X users, but then he destroyed what was clearly unhealthy culture in the company.
Dovid, that suggests that SIL can (should?) respect FIL. See Yoreh Deah 240:24 for details.
skripka, I think people here are so harsh on jackkkkk not because he is to the left of Mao, he is not. But he shows strange stubbornness looping over msnbc message of the week to this heilike forum, being unresponsive to any logical arguments. You can, or at least could recently, be a left-learning person of good standing in Jewish community, such as Joe Liberman.
trolling claim went down from $30k to $17k … this is in line what my local yeshivish school (attempt to) charge those who work for the living. but they do teach some decent limudei chol for that price and have small class sizes. Which proves that this is a one of three major sins to charge more and teach chol – at least if this is what market demands OOT.
Theorem: skripka is the humblest Yid in kulo almo on his side of the mehitza.
Proof: if someone else is the humblest Yid, such as Moshe, then skripka could sit near him and be humble than him.
QEDYidden who don’t go to shul are not contenders, as one could not become truly humble without davening for it.
Moshe went to greet his father in law
If I remember correctly he meant Dickens, Tom Sawyer and like. Things that had ethical messages. That were taught in public schools and available in public library up to 60s, I guess.
> The IDF doesn’t want Chareidim
Rather than looking for krum self-serving arguments, just think about it, taking your statement at face value. You are in effect saying that your community is so crooked or lame that the army defending Yidden in EY does not want your help. It is like rain during Sukkos is compared to a master throwing water at the servant, saying “do not want your service”. So, Army can train Ethiopian or Russian olim who are clueless about modern life or Judaism, but has hard time integrating people who supposedly learned middos, Torah, and maasim tovim? Requires some soul searching.
I may live in a “wrong” place, but I often see the opposite: some busy professionals coming late at night to Kollel to learn with enthusiasm, while some school rebbes occupied by thinking where to earn extra cash by tutoring, working evenings, or anything else. It may be, of course, my view is biased as I see those who come to kollel but not those who do not come.
Kuvult, why are you disclosing the secrets!? now, my last row seat will become more expensive!
Us gov has 3 branches that are supposed to keep each other in check. President nowadays operates trillion dollar army, can listen to everyone’s calls. Congress makes weird laws about things that have nothing to do with federal government
Supreme Court is just 9 dudes and gals who get to resolve 100 cases a year. They are not even selecting their own, it is the fault of the other two if an inappropriate person is there.They are the weakest part. They have less lawyers than the other branches. Easiest to to attack. Their only strength is lifelong tenure and not ruled by other branches.
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1. Give them some slack, their independence is more important than ethics
2. Everyone should give them donations to make them strongerKids need some unscheduled time. Find her a couple of friends so that they can hang around together. Let her read books that you usually do not let her. You can rely on r Avigdor Miller who says to read classics if you must to read in English … parental mental health would be a good justification.
If she is at least 12, she can work or volunteer at a day camp, this would be a great experience. None of our daughters regretted this.
These are hard questions, hope you have someone to guide you through this… note that hospital values may be different frm ours. They can say that a procedure is too risky for an old person. When questioned, they say 30% chance of failure. This is while it is clear that without the procedure the chance of failure is 100% … when posed this way, they reply, the department is not going to take this risk even if you sign off ..
Or they say quality of life will be low. ..
Can’t say whether this depends on the insurance you have
At the same time, it may not be necessary to start heroic procedures that will not really achieve anything but will be halachikally questionable to stop once started.great, so they can guard the terrorists. Maybe teach them mitzvos bnei Noyach.
akuperma, a good point on paintings. Note that early film was also affected.
On one hand, WW1 introduced the war into people’s homes – Brits saw the horrible newsreels and did not like it. At the same time, Hollywood was creating new realities in their movies, and then first Soviets and after them Nazis introduced total deep fake movies, rewriting history and present. Soviets created early movies about heroic history of the country, then about peasants dancing happily in 1930s (while they were actually dying from hunger when government took their grain away). Nazis made newsreel showing Polish mob breaking into Jewish stores and then German police restoring peace (omitting German soldiers who bussed the mob and stood with guns behind the camera).
This underscores Jewish idea of reading and discussing texts. Imagery is avodah zora – when you “see” something, it is very hard to not believe it is real … “I saw it with my own eyes”. Reading lets you think and consider the logic of the events. So, let’s not waste this opportunity to think by throwing garbage texts at each other!
Chaim, “overwhelmed” is also not a good answer. The market is not working.
Even if, B’H, everyone has a lot of kids, the market should respond … Even when pandemic changed everyone’s routines, the toilet paper reappeared in a couple of months 🙂
What would be a reason for shortages? I presume from your writings that your community graduated a lot of people who are qualified to be in chinuch. Say, every family has 15 kids. That, with two parents in each, would make for < 10 kids per parent who can teach. Of course, it could be that parents are teaching in modernishe schools or involved in chinuch, then there might be a problem.
So why there are not enough schools? possible reasons:
– the parents and gov subsidies are not enough to pay the rates same parents are willing to teach for. But what are these parents doing then?
– there are barriers to entry for new schools: they need buildings, maybe some sort of permission from Rabonim and already existing schools.
what do you think?As a note, one of the halachik ways to solve these problems is to encourage competition to benefit parents with choices and low prices, possibly at the expense of schools and teachers. That is, regular businesses can limit competition between each other, you may not be able to open a grocery store that seriously hurts another store, but you can open a school. Your neighbors can object to you banging metal or baking challos in your yard, but they can not object to the noise of children coming to your classes.
So many gedolim, my head spins. I think we need to be realistic about American political system. It is designed to distribute and balance yetezer hara, not to ban it from public life. Justices are not elected, but are put there with a specific role to play. Delegitimizing them from some theoretical, not legal, viewpoints, leads to weakening institutions. You can apply your passion to supporting foundations of American republic. for example, protest all cases where federal government start regulating things that should be better left to the states.
Gadol, if we were to have thousands of ehrliche Talmidei Chachomim learning day 7 night, I personally will be happy to support such a system. But as we see in this and other examples, the participants in this system show questionable middos and lomdus when confronted with life issues, so we are not there yet, unfortunately… hopefully, those who were born & raised into such views, will see from these threads how convoluted and self-contradicting these defenses are when exposed to a discussion, and re-think.
a free advice: if the President would like to dispel fake attack on him, he can simply start having events with press and voters like most politicians do.
no fact checking will convince people otherwise. Jackk, feel free to pass this info beshem amro> wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26.
They forgot to include a provision that these young people wash their own dishes and pay rent. I may sue the senator for the losses.
Chaim, I hear you. I am mostly in the category you described, but I also get occasional discounts when either dealing with a nice principal or with a financial manager who estimates that we have choices (is it gnevas daas to hint that a chassidishe school or a super-modern one is an acceptable option for you :?). As everyone seem to agree, the “full tuition” is set higher than the actual cost.
My point is that the main goal is to create healthy competition, empowering customers (parents), leading to better outcomes. If your system is in the hands of an entity not associated with the school, it might work also. But it will leave parents like me still at the weak negotiating point with the schools.
Chaim, I hear what you are saying. Still, in the absence of evidence, I prefer to keep faith in people. Doesn’t mean that I will drive into their neighborhood, of course. Other than Rahav, I do not have many examples … I did see once, two American yeshivish suit dressed boys quarrelling a little in Old City. A passing by local Arab addressed them in English “Do not fight on Shabbat”. I told him “Shabbat Shalom” and he returned my greeting.
I’ve been in a number of yeshivish shuls and events that said Tehilim in last several months. It is moving except a little funny that they would not acknowledge the country and the army they are davening for. This is, lehavdil, what I heard from Jews in Kyiv that Soviets had memorials at place where Jews were killed by Nazis with signs “Soviet citizens were killed here”.
lebidik, there is a teshuva from R Moshe regarding going to a medical school. I hope I recall this correctly. He seems to say that a doctor needs to go to the best school and then deal with difficulties of being shomer shabbos (presumably, problems are solvable just require an effort), rather than go to a shver school that is accommodating, so that one is the best doctor he can be. Can you apply same logic to IDF? If there is a need to go there – go and at the same time deal with challenges and help soldiers to overcome them. Send packages with mehadrin food. Post Rabbis who give classes on tzniyut. Whatever it takes.
It would be one thing that someone reads a gemorah about righteous behavior and then posts about various politicians who do not fit the standard. With others, it seems that they watch partisan TV and re-transmit this week’s political plan into here. Many of us have treif phones and can watch those programs ourselves if we choose so, thank you. And those who have glatt phones or don’t choose to watch treif, don’t need to come here to get it.
Also, based on sourcing, it feels as productive to talk back as it is to shout back at the TV screen.
here are some quotes from Reb Milton Friedman on public vouchers that are also applicable Jewish education, I think. Keep in mind that it seems also to fit some of halachik principles that allows unrestricted competition between teachers (but in other industries where you are generally not allowed to hurt competition and inconvenience neighbors)
> Reform has to come through competition from the outside and the only way you can get competition is by making it possible for parents to have the ability to choose. … The amount of money spent per child adjusted for inflation has something like doubled or tripled over the last 20 years. …The key word is competition and the question is how can you get competition. Only by having the customer choosing.
Most important, how the system will be set up. Look at public voucher systems for guidance. For example, discounts should follow the family, rather than given out to schools based on current enrollment to facilitate competition. Also, hopefully, the system can be made less invasive. Net income approach invites someone going through everyone’s taxes and even more. Maybe it is better to subsidize everyone equally and avoid hurting self-esteem of community members.
WSJ sent one of their arab stringers to interview the neighbors. Their main complaint is that Hamas should keep hostages underground and not risk their (neighbors’) lives! of course, this might be what they say in public… Anyway, it appears that the houses were pretty flimsy, so neighbors do not sound believable that they “had no idea”. Thus, it well maybe that Hamas members presumed that they can rely on 100% support from their neighbors, but someone still spilled the information.
I am not sure DaMoshe’s mesorah, but some form of “MO” is how most of our ancestors lived for centuries. They all worked, some learned, many went to shul when the shul was accessible subject to working hours. They dressed as others, unless goyim forced some other dress on them. In places where it was possible, some of them got medical and philosophical education, and they got jobs with the government.
I know of a klal that when minhag goyim is based on a sevorah, we are allowed to follow, but not when it is irrational. So, it might depend on a degree:
having a ceremony celebrating ability to become a medical doctor sounds rational. Celebrating spending $200K on achieving bakiyut in gender studies – irrational.I worked out a speech for one of the kids for a middle school graduation – about a difference between “graduation” and a “siyum”.
Graduation comes from latin “step” so you step out of what you were doing. Siyum says that we are going to return to the maseches again
I skipped PhD graduation because I was busy at work, after I realized how much I still need to learn.
There were some times news of Hamas executing collaborationists. There is a son of Hamas founder who lives in England and writes books and gives speeches against Hamas. For comparison, when Americans liberated Iraq, there were lots of insurgents in the news, but there were also thousands and thousands of Iraqis who worked closely with Americans. When you read the news that an ISIS or Saddam insurgent bombed a line to the police station – that means there were hundred of Iraqis standing in line to get a police job. [I am paraphrasing RE Silver story about someone who was selling siddur in German camps]
> Those who learn Torah are more qualified for an exemption than any and all of the above.
this is very crum. We had a number of people here voicing their arguments or the rabbis they listen to. The refuseniks include not just lomdei Torah at any reasonable cutoof reason, but anybody who is willing to follow these communities. This is, in effect, catch-22: evil Zs do not listen to our B’D – but if they suddenly listen to us, then everyone will be exempt.
Think, Torah asks us to dedicate 1 day a week fully away from the world. Would it be OK to extend Shabbos by a couple of hours? seems to be OK. How about keep Shabbos 3-4 days a week? Does not make sense, right? This is not what Hashem intended. Same, sheves Levi was exempt, so say 10% of population could be exempt (plus those under 20 and over 60 who can learn full time). So, now about 50% of Israeli Jewish population are shomer shabbos and, B’H, growing. So, distribute this 10% exemption between these whole 50% of population, compensate the rest with college exemptions and establish a strong sheves Levi that is supported by the whole am isroel, instead of current unfortunate bizayon Torah.
> So where are the good Gazaians who simply have to make one phone call to the Israelis and inform them where the hostages are?
how do we know that is not how they found recent hostages? or targeted some of the hamas leaders? whatever info is in the papers is not necessarily accurate, and for a good reason.
Somehow Torah counts Jews in BMibbar as those who are “yetze tzava” (other than sheves Levi).
Maybe academic dress is similar to what Jews consider scholarly dress also? Long robes and sleeves are the sign that the person is not engaged in manual labor and does not need to run fast in his business. Not that different from scholarly costumes yeshiva students wear our days.
oh, now it becomes clear what they need by NET income. Maybe they are including all these transfer payments.
chaim > How does democracy save us from those dangers?
right, that is why throughout a lot of history, democracy was not practiced. It works when (1) voting public (does not have to be all population) are suffiently educated (2) there are parts of the system that can stop passions (republic, courts, etc)
common > and are not busy trying to see which way the wind is blowing.
I know you mean well, defending integrity of halakha against various Reformim and OOS. That is not what I am talking about. It is there in the gemora that psak that is not accepted by the community is being rescinded. If you don’t believe me, I hope you only follow hashgoho that avoids shemen akum.
> does not believe in daas torah and said everybody should pasken as they see fit
yes, you connected two stories well, this is the same Rav. And he paskens as he sees fit, according to achoronim. How is it different from Rabbonim in your town? Do they all refer all your questions to R Moshe? Then, what is their salaries for? Or do they share their Torah for free as T’Ch should?
Indeed, tzahal may not be short on soldiers right now, but they are limited how long they can keep people away from their civilian jobs. So helping with those jobs should also be an option.
I don’t understand this thread – is there a specific claim that the judge benefited his friend somehow? His philosophy is known, and so of other judges. I think 8 of them decide according to their declared philosophy, whether they ❤️ 🍺 or don’t know who a woman is. The chief judge seems to be the only one who has some external considerations.